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According to World Bank estimates, 8 out of every 10 people pushed into extreme poverty as a result of the coronavirus pandemic were Indians.

A senior Chinese official on Saturday warned people to avoid physical contact with foreigners so as to prevent getting the monkeypox infection.

A gang of thieves in China's Shandong province stole nearly 150 cats so the animals could be sold to slaughterhouses.

Dugong, a species that inspired ancient tales about mermaids and sirens for centuries, has been declared functionally extinct in China

China has been forced to artificially induce rain as its crucial Yangtze River is running at extremely low water levels.

The world was still learning to live with the highly contagious coronavirus when another potentially fatal virus, Langya, started rearing its head.

Motorola has officially confirmed the excellent first sales figures of the newly launched Razr 2022 clamshell smartphone.

China has reported cases of a potentially fatal new virus called Langya, which is believed to have been transferred from shrews to humans.

A Chinese social media influencer is being investigated by the police after she shared a video of her eating a great white shark.

A diner at a restaurant in the Sichuan province of China has accidentally helped palaeontologists unearth 100 million-year-old dinosaur footprints.

Yang Huiyan, the richest woman in Asia, has lost more than half of her wealth due to the ongoing property market crisis in China.

A Chinese man, Tang Lu, has been executed after being found guilty of setting his ex-wife ablaze.

Authorities in the Chinese city of Guangzhou have had to apologise for breaking into the houses of those who had been taken to quarantine in a hotel.

India is expected to overtake China as the world's most populous country by next year, according to a United Nations report.

A 45-year-old Chinese man has sought a divorce from his wife of 16 years.

A disturbing video of a school teacher brutally hitting a ninth-grade student after the latter dozed off in classroom has gone viral on social media.

China's zero-Covid policy and the subsequent lockdowns have made survival difficult for foreign companies.

A study published in The Lancet has revealed that pollution caused more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, the highest number reported from any country.

A China Eastern Airlines aircraft that crashed in the southern Guangxi province of China in March this year was reportedly made to crash intentionally, according to US media reports

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba lost billions of dollars after the authorities detained a person who shares his surname with the company's founder Jack Ma.

As many as nine people have been arrested following the collapse of a building in the Chinese city of Changsha where several people are still trapped.

The residents of Beijing were seen flocking to markets on Monday to stock up on food and other essential supplies in case the Chinese government imposes a Shanghai-style lockdown.

A Taiwanese news channel called CTS had to issue an apology after it accidentally aired a fictional news alert stating that Chinese forces had launched an attack on the country.

A group of Chinese astronauts returned safely to Earth last week after spending six months on board Tiangong space station. The crew had taken off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert in October last year.

The US State Department has asked non-emergency US government workers to leave the consulate in Shanghai as the city continues to see a surge in Covid-19 cases.

China has received backlash from Australian authorities after a court in Beijing carried out a trial of journalist Cheng Lei's case behind closed doors, under heavy security on Thursday.

A 59-year-old Chinese man was stopped by the police from test-flying his home-made helicopter. The man had managed to build the helicopter using a boat engine.

China has had to shut down the Disney resort located in its financial hub of Shanghai as the country faces its worst Covid-19 outbreak in the last two years.

The economic crisis faced by Sri Lanka is only worsening with each passing day, the country has now cancelled school exams for millions of students as it has run out of printing paper and ink

Anthropologist Dr Jesse Casana says that he may have discovered an ancient city and believes that it could be older than the Egyptian pyramids. The area is called Tell Brak and the discovery has been made by analysing images taken by an old spy satellite.